Do the Welsh look different than the English?

Question

How common are mediterranean features in Wales? Some sources act like that describes the majority of Welsh people. Are most Welsh people relatively short, with dark and eyes and dark hair? Do most really have that "Catherine Zeta-Jones" look? Or are most fair skinned with light hair? Would you say that most are fair skinned, with light eyes, and dark hair? In general, do Welsh populations look different from the English, or other Tuetonic people like the Dutch and Germans?

Again. What do most Welshmen look like? Do most have dark hair and dark eyes?

Please be serious. This is for anthropology. I'm asking how common dark features are in Wales. HOW COMMON dark features are in Wales! And btw, Catherine Zeta Jones is not half Lebonese. You are thinking of Salma Hayek, the Mexican actress.

Thank you Katie for your sincere answer. I know all of the history of the peoples of the British Isles extensively. I would just like to know how common certain features are in Wales. Say for instance, "What percentage of Welsh people have black hair?" And I would also like to know if there is a significant difference in the physical appearance between the Welsh and English. (I'm basically trying to determine if the English are predominantly Anglo-Saxons, or merely "Anglo-Saxonized" Celts, who just adopted the culture and language of the invaders, and intermarried, rather than the genocide theory of traditional historians). Beyond genetic testing (which contradict eachother) a good way to find out the people's origins is to determine what they look like. Their physical attributes will give us an idea of their ancestry. So, I would have to know if there's a signifcant difference in appearance between Welsh and English, and what those differences are, and how common they are.

Answer 1

I certainly cannot tell if s/o is Welsh or English by their looks.

Perhaps you have heard of Cheddar Man? They found human remains 8000 years old in a cave at Cheddar and they found a history teacher in Somerset who was proved to be a direct genetic descendent.

Other genetic evidence indicates, I've heard, that the number of gentically Germanic and Viking people entering Britain between AD200 and 1100 was about 100,000. Compared to an indigenous population of 1 1/2 to 4 million.

There is no evidence of a systematic wipeout of Celtic Britons by invading Anglo-Saxons. But each area has a different story. Kent, Sussex and Essex (including much of what we call Middlesex and Surrey) were given by Vortigern to Hengist by treaty (as ransom under duress). They got new rulers, not new populations. Cerdic was put in charge of a Saxon garrison in the Abingdon area to guard the West against invasion up the Thames. (I believe Cerdic was a relative of King Arthur and a prince of Kernow [Dumnonia] and that the ASC date of 495 is correct.) Saxon settlement of Lincolnshire and E Anglia seems so early that it was probably under Roman governors. Again, we are talking about a warrior caste not a peasant displacement.

There were undoubtedly some slaughters, such as by Cadwallon and Penda in Northumbria, by the Wessaxens in the Isle of Wight against the Jutes, and by the Vikings in Kent. There is evidence of emigration from Wiltshire to Brittany in the 550s suggesting that the victories by the Gewissae in Salisbury (552) and near Swindon (556) may have been displaceative.

But remember most of what is now England was still in Celtic kingdoms in AD570. What happened after that is that kings warred against other kings and most of the time the kings of Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex won the battles so those three became the principal kingdoms. They fought their neighbours, Celtic and English alike, threw out the defeated kings and their teulu but of course kept the peasantry, who else would have tilled the land? British (-> Welsh) cantrefs became English hundreds.

There is room for argument about how English population came to be dense so early on the S bank of the Trent (for example), but whenever a place had a -saetas name, we can be sure that it was taken over by an English king with no general disruption. Examples include Penksaetas and Tamesaetas in the W Midlands and of course Dorsaetas and Sumersaetas in the Westcountry.

Answer 2

Welsh Facial Features

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Welsh People Physical Characteristics

Answer 4

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Do the Welsh look different than the English?
How common are mediterranean features in Wales? Some sources act like that describes the majority of Welsh people. Are most Welsh people relatively short, with dark and eyes and dark hair? Do most really have that "Catherine Zeta-Jones" look? Or are most fair skinned with light hair?...

Answer 5

My answer is purely out of observation but I've got to say that yes, there is a difference. I was born and brought up in South West England but am of Welsh descent (both my parents were born in Wales of Welsh parentage).
Going to school, I noticed a big difference in how I looked and how most of my class looked (the rest that I'm not including, they were of other ethnicity than English).
I had thick dark blonde hair (something that is quite common in the UK), pale, almost white skin, thick black eyelashes and definite (though pale) blue eyes. I also had thicker lips, rounder features and body, naturally stronger (this I think is something personal to me) and had shorter limbs than others.
Another thing that is clear to anyone looking, my mum and myself look completely different to my step-dad. He's English and has smaller features and longer limbs than us. You can tell that we've all got different ethnic backgrounds.
I've rambled on far too much, I've run out of space!

Answer 6

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They don't is the only answer. Almost all the people of the British isles have similar genetic history a mix of Germanic , Scandinavian, Pre-Roman settlers of the British isles that differences where slim anyway. However in the intervening centuries the different nations and the different parts of the those nations have so heavily interbred that any genetics differences that did exist have since became extinct.

Answer 7

I have been to Wales many times. I was in South Wales last time I went five years ago. I saw alot of fair haired women. Not bright blonde hair but gold - blue eyes. Alot with celtic background are darker haired though. Some celts have red hair.

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Answer 9

If you look at a map of skin tone color in Europe, you will see that on average, the Welsh have darker complexions. This is only on average. (See first link, thir map) The second link suggested there are some differences in genetics between the Welsh and English

Answer 10

I see you have a new identity. The simple answer is that we don't. You wouldn't know which country they came from until they spoke. For that matter, you would also mix up British nationals with Germans and Dutch etc.